UK Life Sciences Company Directory

National institute developing new imaging and technology platforms for life science

The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a national institute developing new technologies for the life sciences, bringing together physical sciences, engineering and biology. The Institute's research spans artificial intelligence, biological mass spectrometry, advanced imaging and structural biology, aiming to reveal…

AI-powered scientific knowledge management and laboratory workspace

Labbera is a software company developing an AI-enabled workspace for scientific and laboratory research teams. Its platform connects experimental records, spreadsheets, files, meeting notes and project tasks into a searchable body of research context. Users can ask questions about previous experiments, retrieve…

CASPAROV AI platform for targets in heterogeneous cancers

Enedra Therapeutics develops targeted cancer medicines designed to address genetic diversity within solid tumours, a major cause of treatment resistance. Its CASPAROV platform combines cancer genomics, AI and functional biology to identify survival mechanisms shared across heterogeneous tumour cells. These convergent…

Engineered bacteriophages for precision antimicrobial discovery

BioPhoundry is an engineering biology company developing bacteriophage-based technologies for precision antimicrobial research. Its Phax platform combines machine learning, synthetic biology and cell-free production to accelerate phage discovery and engineering. The company aims to generate tailored phages for…

AI-guided plant biosynthesis platform for novel therapeutic compounds

HotHouse Therapeutics is a drug discovery platform company that engineers plants as sustainable biofactories for pharmaceutical compound production. Using AI to design and optimise biosynthetic pathways, it produces both natural and new-to-nature molecules via transient and stable plant expression systems capable of…

AI-driven antibody reagents and diagnostics for research and clinical use

Vertebrate Antibodies is a contract research organisation developing custom monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, and AI-driven diagnostic products for research and clinical applications. Its AI-driven epitope prediction and antigen display platforms enable highly specific antibody generation against novel…

Not-for-profit research organisation targeting intrinsically disordered proteins

Bind Research is the UK's first Focused Research Organisation, established to make intrinsically disordered proteins druggable targets for new medicines. The organisation integrates NMR spectroscopy, biophysical characterisation, chemoproteomics, and AI to build comprehensive datasets of disordered protein-small…

Gut microbiome tests predicting biologic drug response in IBD

AlphaBiomics is a precision medicine company developing diagnostics that analyse the gut microbiome to guide treatment decisions. Its lead test uses a stool sample collected at home and machine learning analysis of microbial sequencing data to predict which patients with inflammatory bowel disease are likely to…

Custom software and data management solutions for life sciences

Firefinch Software is a software development company specialising in custom applications and data management solutions for the life sciences, biotechnology, medtech, and medical device sectors. The company develops desktop, web, and mobile software for instrument control, laboratory process digitisation, regulatory…

Non-endoscopic molecular diagnostics for early oesophageal cancer detection

Cyted Health is a gastrointestinal molecular diagnostics company developing minimally invasive testing for early detection and monitoring of oesophageal pre-cancer and cancer. Its platform combines a swallowable capsule sponge cell collection device with AI-driven biomarker molecular assays to detect Barrett's…

AI platform for bone marrow morphology analysis

Ground Truth Labs is an Oxford-based computational pathology company applying machine learning and computer vision to decode disease in bone marrow tissue. Its platform quantifies morphological markers including fibrosis, blasts, and plasma cells at slide and cell level, and identifies novel prognostic patterns…

Genomics platform developing RNA therapies for chronic liver disease

Ochre Bio is a biotechnology company developing RNA therapeutics for chronic liver disease using a platform built on large-scale human liver datasets. The platform integrates gene perturbation atlases, single-cell genomics from perfused donor livers, and machine learning to identify and validate disease-modifying drug…

ML-driven antibody discovery platform for solid tumour therapeutics

LabGenius Therapeutics is a company developing next-generation therapeutic antibodies using its closed-loop machine learning platform. The platform integrates AI, robotic automation and high-throughput experimentation to co-optimise multispecific antibodies across potency, selectivity and manufacturability…

AI-powered medical imaging software for stroke, oncology and lung disease

Brainomix is a UK software company specialising in AI-powered imaging biomarkers and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) to support clinical decision-making in stroke, lung fibrosis, and cancer. Its platform provides clinicians with automated imaging analysis to guide treatment decisions in acute stroke care and is…

Pharmacogenomic platform for personalised hormone therapy prescribing

Dama Health is a clinical decision-support software company focused on personalised prescribing of hormone therapies in women's health. Its platform collects patient health, lifestyle, and genetic data and uses an AI-driven recommendation engine to match patients to appropriate hormone therapies and contraceptives.…

AI-driven lab automation platform for drug discovery

Astral Automation Solutions is a Welsh software company developing an AI-powered laboratory automation platform for pre-clinical drug discovery. The platform provides intelligent workflow orchestration, universal compatibility with laboratory devices across manufacturers, and advanced simulation capabilities designed…

Transcription factor-targeting drug discovery for neurodegeneration

Scripta Therapeutics is an Oxford-based biotech company developing disease-modifying therapeutics by mapping and modulating transcription factor networks. Its platform integrates AI, imaging, and patient-derived models in a lab-in-the-loop workflow to identify compounds that restore healthy cellular states. The…

AI-driven neural data platform for bioelectronic medicine

BIOS Health is a neural engineering company developing an AI-powered platform that reads and interprets peripheral nervous system signals in real time. Its technology links nerve activity to physiological conditions through the discovery of neural biomarkers, supporting the development of personalised neuromodulation…

AI-powered stain-free digital pathology for liver fibrosis quantification

HistoIndex is a contract digital pathology organisation providing quantitative histology services for clinical trials and diagnostics, with a primary focus on liver fibrosis in metabolic liver disease. Its platform combines stain-free microscopy with artificial intelligence to generate objective, reproducible fibrosis…

AI-driven AAV capsid engineering for next-generation gene therapy

Lir Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company redesigning adeno-associated virus capsids for gene therapy using an AI-first platform. Its platform integrates high-throughput experimental data generation with machine learning models trained on structural, functional and immunogenicity representations of…